Columbia School District Should Abandon Frivolous Lawsuit
To date, Columbia Public Schools has spent roughly $82,000 on the “adequacy” lawsuit, despite the fact it is a no-win...
Mizzou 38, OU 35
No, this is not a post about football. The University of Missouri?Columbia has won approval to drop the hyphen from...
Webber on Public Schools
David Webber, a professor at the University of Missouri, makes some good points in an op-ed about school choice in...
From Equity to Adequacy to Choice
The Show-Me Institute is today co-sponsoring a conference about issues associated with public school finance and educational adequacy lawsuits. The...
Empowering Parents to Seek Out Adequate Education
As was widely expected, last week a circuit court judge denied several school districts’ claims of constitutional entitlement to...
CARR Training Returns Home to Missouri
Along with David Stokes, I had the pleasure of attending two all-day sessions training Missouri broadcasters how to use the...
Should Kirkwood Sell Its Municipal Utilities?
Kirkwood is the only municipality in Saint Louis County that continues to provide utility services to its residents. Would citizens...
When High Schools Fail, Colleges Take Up the Slack
An editorial in the Columbia Daily Tribune calls for higher standards in K-12 education: UM President George Russell went around...
No Child Left Behind, Take 2
Here‘s another article in the Post-Dispatch about No Child Left Behind. This one quotes Show-Me Institute board member Mike Podgursky:...
Adequacy Lawsuits Reinforce Poor Educational Policy
As part of a growing trend seen across the United States, several school districts in Missouri continue to perform poorly,...
Reading, Writing, and… Labor Studies
John Combest links to an article about the University of Missouri at Kansas City. UMKC is getting rid of its...
Centralized Economic Policy Bad for Missouri
The 2007 economic development bill, HB 327, would enact a wide variety of tax credits and other subsidies. Although widely...
MOHELA Money II: Biotech Boogaloo
Looks like Gov. Blunt and friends will get their MOHELA money after all. At this juncture, pointing out just how...
Bearden on School Choice–In Higher Ed
Carl Bearden writes about scholarships and higher education in the South East Missourian: I have long believed that it is...
Better Teacher Pay Would Improve Math and Science Instruction
In many schools across the country, students hand in lab reports and math homework to teachers who have no...
Saint Louis Can’t Afford an Earnings Tax
Saint Louis faces a sad irony. It boasts cultural institutions that many larger cities envy — its symphony, opera theatre,...
